|
ANOTHER LATEST URBAN LEGEND
______________________________
Claim: Comedian Robin Williams came up with a plan for how the U.S. should handle foreign affairs.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2003]
A GREAT PLAN
Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan . . . what we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up
and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of one plan for peace. "Books, not Bombs" won't
work. The head mullahs won't let anyone read them. If they do, they poke their eyes out.
Here's the plan:
1) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past &present. You know,
Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of them 'good old boys'. We will never "interfere" again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't
want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90
days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome
them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a
terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself, don't hide here. Asylum would not ever
be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers.
5) No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D"
and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting
sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for
a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace
else.
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere". They can pray to
Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to
the army. The people who need it most get very little, if any anyway.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, it
would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
Now, ain't that a winner of a plan ??
Variations: Early versions of this list included an eleventh entry:
11) And lastly bring back the manufacturing from our country, curtail the cheap imports from all over the world and put
the middle class back to work in our country.
Origins: We don't know who is responsible for the piece quoted above, but it definitely wasn't acto/comedian Robin Williams
(of Mork & Mindy television fame). This item's debut appears to have been a 20 March 2003 posting to the USENET newsgroup
alt.motorcycles.harley, and from there it was rapidly disseminated via e-mail and blogs, credited to either "author unknown"
or no one at all. The Robin Williams attribution wasn't tacked on until several weeks later, apparently because along the
way the eleventh entry was dropped and a genuine Robin Williams quote appended in its place:
"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball
bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'" — Robin Williams.
The 'Robin Williams' attribution for the final item was interpreted as applying to the list as a whole, so now the entire
piece circulates as 'the Robin Williams plan.'
LATE LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE
TOMMY KNOCKERS, TOMMY KNOCKERS
KNOCKING ON MY DOOR
WANT TO GO OUT, BUT DONT KNOW IF I CAN
BECAUSE IM TOO SCARED
OF THE TOMMY KNOCKER MAN
|
